Song Quotes by Van Morrison

Hearing the blues changed my life.

— Van Morrison

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

— Van Morrison

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

— Van Morrison

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

— Van Morrison

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

— Van Morrison

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

— Van Morrison

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

— Van Morrison

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no…

— Van Morrison

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

— Van Morrison

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a…

— Van Morrison

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.…

— Van Morrison

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

— Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't…

— Van Morrison

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

— Van Morrison

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that…

— Van Morrison

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And…

— Van Morrison

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers…

— Van Morrison

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from…

— Van Morrison

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And…

— Van Morrison

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to…

— Van Morrison

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock…

— Van Morrison

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say…

— Van Morrison

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.…

— Van Morrison

We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody…

— Van Morrison

The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a…

— Van Morrison

In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think…

— Van Morrison

The job of the jazz people is to take it as far as it will go and that's what they're doing. But…

— Van Morrison

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was…

— Van Morrison

Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff,…

— Van Morrison

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what…

— Van Morrison

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

— Van Morrison

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

— Van Morrison

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what…

— Van Morrison

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

— Van Morrison

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's…

— Van Morrison

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

— Van Morrison

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play…

— Van Morrison

I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just…

— Van Morrison